Alburnus
Genus of fishes
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Alburnus is a genus of fish in the family Leuciscidae, the daces and minnows.[1] They are known commonly as bleaks.[2] A group of species in the genus is known as shemayas.[3] The genus occurs in the western Palearctic realm,[4] and the center of diversity is in Turkey.[5]
| Alburnus | |
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| Common bleak (Alburnus alburnus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Genus: | Alburnus Rafinesque, 1820[1] |
| Type species | |
| Cyprinus alburnus | |
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The genus Chalcalburnus is now part of Alburnus.[6]
Species
Currently, the following recognized species are placed in this genus:[7]
- Alburnus adanensis Battalgil, 1944 (Adana bleak)
- †Alburnus akili Battalgil, 1942 (Beyşehir bleak)
- Alburnus albidus (Costa 1838) (Italian bleak)
- Alburnus alburnus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Common bleak)
- Alburnus amirkabiri (Mousavi-Sabet) (Amirkabir's bleak)
- Alburnus arborella (Bonaparte 1841) (Alborella)
- Alburnus atropatenae Berg, 1925
- Alburnus attalus Özuluğ & Freyhof, 2007 (Bakır shemaya)
- Alburnus baliki Bogutskaya, Küçük & Ünlü, 2000 (Antalya bleak)
- Alburnus belvica Karaman, 1924 (Prespa bleak)
- Alburnus caeruleus Heckel, 1843 (Black spotted bleak)
- Alburnus carianorum Freyhof, Kaya, Bayçelebi, Geiger & Turan. 2019
- Alburnus carinatus Battalgil, 1941 (Manyas shemaya)
- Alburnus chalcoides (Güldenstädt, 1772) (Danube bleak)
- †Alburnus danubicus Antipa, 1909 (Danube shemaya)
- Alburnus demiri Özuluğ & Freyhof, 2008 (East Aegean bleak)
- Alburnus derjugini Berg, 1923 (Georgian shemaya)
- Alburnus doriae De Filippi, 1865
- Alburnus escherichii Steindachner, 1897 (Sakarya bleak)
- Alburnus filippii Kessler, 1877 (Kura bleak)
- Alburnus goekhani Özuluğ, Geiger & Freyhof, 2018
- Alburnus hohenackeri Kessler, 1877 (North Caucasian bleak)
- Alburnus istanbulensis Battalgil, 1941
- Alburnus kotschyi Steindachner, 1863 (Arsuz bleak)
- Alburnus kurui (Bogutskaya, 1995)
- Alburnus leobergi Freyhof & Kottelat, 2007 (Azov shemaya)
- Alburnus macedonicus Karaman, 1928 (Doiran bleak)
- Alburnus magnificus Freyhof & Turan, 2019
- Alburnus mandrensis Drensky, 1943 (Mandras bleak)
- Alburnus maximus Fatio, 1882
- Alburnus mento (Heckel, 1836) (Lake bleak)
- Alburnus mentoides Kessler, 1859 (Crimean shemaya)
- Alburnus neretvae Buj, Šanda & Perea, 2010
- †Alburnus nicaeensis Battalgil, 1941 (Iznik shemaya)
- Alburnus oblongus (Bulgakov, 1923) (Tashkent riffle bleak)
- Alburnus orontis Sauvage 1882 (Orontis spotted bleak)
- Alburnus qalilus Krupp, 1992 (Syrian spotted bleak)
- Alburnus sarmaticus Freyhof & Kottelat, 2007
- Alburnus sava Bogutskaya, Zupančič, Jelić, Diripasko & Naseka. 2017
- Alburnus schischkovi (Drensky, 1943) (Black Sea bleak)
- Alburnus scoranza Bonaparte, 1845
- Alburnus sellal Heckel, 1843. (Sellal bleak)
- Alburnus taeniatus Kessler, 1874
- Alburnus tarichi (Güldenstädt, 1814) (Tarek)
- Alburnus thessalicus Stephanidis, 1950 (Thessaly bleak)
- Alburnus timarensis Kuru, 1980
- Alburnus ulanus (Günther 1899)
- Alburnus vistonicus Freyhof & Kottelat, 2007 (Vistonis shemaja)
- Alburnus volviticus Freyhof & Kottelat, 2007 (Volvi bleak)